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Reading posts from guys like hazbin turned me on (no homo) to the idea of flexing after lifting for 10 to 15 minutes to help with growth. .... maybe this is an obvious idea to some but it's not something that I have ever done.
Thoughts?
I've found increased fatigue the next day after adding this step to my workout. And it's quite tough to do, pushing my heart rate up nicely.
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You'll ' get a few seconds pump that's it .
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Reading posts from guys like hazbin turned me on (no homo) to the idea of flexing after lifting for 10 to 15 minutes to help with growth. .... maybe this is an obvious idea to some but it's not something that I have ever done.
Thoughts?
I've found increased fatigue the next day after adding this step to my workout. And it's quite tough to do, pushing my heart rate up nicely.
I think youl find they private pose after workouts in order to obtain growth, you were on the right track tho
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That's the 8th gayest thing I've ever read on GetBig.
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I think youl find they private pose after workouts in order to obtain growth, you were on the right track tho
Seems like a fucking easy trick that very few people use...
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Not sure if it grows muscle but it's awesome and fun!
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Unless you have a home gym, you run the risk of being a douche-o-rama
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it's good for working on mind-muscle connection aka neural pathways, which indirectly will help growth
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i realize i am the impetus for this thread, but i think it makes an incredible huge difference.. anyone that has competed knows how much effort posing takes. i've been in shows with large weight classes, and i would've rather lost than had to go thru another round of comparisons.
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I think youl find they private pose after workouts in order to obtain growth, you were on the right track tho
i see what you did there!! ;)
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i see what you did there!! ;)
Dammit I didn't and went full homo
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Unless you have a home gym, you run the risk of being a douche-o-rama
At my old job I would sometimes work out on my lunch hour in the weight room. Usually I was the only one there with tons of mirrors. You do the math. Flexorama!
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i realize i am the impetus for this thread, but i think it makes an incredible huge difference.. anyone that has competed knows how much effort posing takes. i've been in shows with large weight classes, and i would've rather lost than had to go thru another round of comparisons.
this^^
after second comparison you will be like just get this over I just want to get home lol..
once I was in this competition where we've been called out 4-5 times for comparison ::) ::) ::)
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If you do it right you'll see the difference.
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i realize i am the impetus for this thread, but i think it makes an incredible huge difference.. anyone that has competed knows how much effort posing takes. i've been in shows with large weight classes, and i would've rather lost than had to go thru another round of comparisons.
i think you posted about this years ago & i copied and pasted it. made tons of sense.
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You always hear people talk about flexing after each set. Does it make a difference? Yes? No?
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Just look at the arm that you flex all the time when someone says make a muscle. It is usaully a lot better than the other one.
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Just look at the arm that you flex all the time when someone says make a muscle. It is usaully a lot better than the other one.
lol. I hope youre trolling.
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i realize i am the impetus for this thread, but i think it makes an incredible huge difference.. anyone that has competed knows how much effort posing takes. i've been in shows with large weight classes, and i would've rather lost than had to go thru another round of comparisons.
An incredible difference in what? I can certainly see the value if you are a competitive bber as tensing your muscles for extended periods of time is very exhausting. But does it actually help muscle growth? The benefits of stretching a muscle after it has been trained has been shown to aid in recovery and I imagine functional ability. But I wonder if any studies has been done on muscle flexing. I can see that if you are injured and unable to train that flexing would help keep the muscle "toned". It seems that flexing a muscle does provide some stimulus which I imagine is better than doing nothing.
I'm all about the stretch but don't do any flexing in the gym.
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i think you posted about this years ago & i copied and pasted it. made tons of sense.
well thanx, I take that as a compliment. I remember mike mentzer saying when he posed he could feel his muscle growing. now this is certainly physiologically impossible, but I remember flexing so hard the muscle started to kinda tingle like it was busting thru the skin. I am guessing this is what mentzer was talking about.
I truly believe hard posing influences the shape, hardness and certainly the vascularity of your muscle..
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Unless you have a home gym, you run the risk of being a douche-o-rama
big difference between posing and discreetly flexing the bodypart you are training. if you are wearing loose clothing and contract your pecs as hard as possible during a chest workout no one has to know.
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Just look at the arm that you flex all the time when someone says make a muscle. It is usaully a lot better than the other one.
#Arnold
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Posing after your training session or during your training, is not going to help you to grow.
BUT it helps to be more defined. To get deeper "lines" in your muscles and a better shape. I cannot scientificaly explain that, but my coach said that to me and at his other atheltes many times.
Flexing is helping a lot preventing injuries since you help your muscle to have more "endurance". I wish that i would start years before the flexing.
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I think at the very least it helps the mind muscle connection.
I enjoy flexing my biceps in the hands clasp pose and hold till my arms start shaking.
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Just look at the arm that you flex all the time when someone says make a muscle. It is usaully a lot better than the other one.
I always flex my right arm when asked to "show me your muscles" even as a little kid. But that's because that was my bigger arm in the first place and that I am right handed. BTW, I always did some extra sets for my left arm to "even them out" and it made zero difference. I still do. When doing unilateral work my first set is with my left and my last set is with my left. It's just out of habit. Now that I think about it, I think I should stop. I mean, if it hasn't made a difference after 40 years of training it's not going to make a difference now.
It's like when someone was saying that doing construction work makes you stronger and gives you bigger forearms when in fact a weak person is far less likely to take a profession that requires physical strength than a strong person.
Arnold's right bicep always had a better peak than his left. Even as a teen.
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big difference between posing and discreetly flexing the bodypart you are training. if you are wearing loose clothing and contract your pecs as hard as possible during a chest workout no one has to know.
True, but this is Getbig. The expectation is that you peel and do multiple most musculars while growling "yeeeaaahhhh!!!"
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I think it helps definitely. You isolate the muscle in your mind and develop that mind-muscle connection so you can apply as much direct stimulus as possible.
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Did it after back yesterday. ... had never really thought about flexing my back until yesterday and I sucked... but it became easier towards the end... then I was dead.
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LOL some of the comments.... if you never stepped on stage you'll never know the value of posing. just hit a front double biceps and see how you look there, then repeat 10 times and see how much wingspan you display. hint: it has to do with activation of and creating length/tone ratio of antagonizing muscles. think of it as yoga for bodybuilders.
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LOL some of the comments.... if you never stepped on stage you'll never know the value of posing. just hit a front double biceps and see how you look there, then repeat 10 times and see how much wingspan you display. hint: it has to do with activation of and creating length/tone ratio of antagonizing muscles. think of it as yoga for bodybuilders.
Made me think about the ballet studio scene in pumping iron.
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Being able to pose and find the right posture for optimal illusion is like 90% more imporant than the acual musclemass! Frank Zane knew that and most bodybuilders did in the 70-80ies.
DO your posing and u will find new poses all the time that fit your body! Pretty funny!
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Being able to pose and find the right posture for optimal illusion is like 90% more imporant than the acual musclemass! Frank Zane knew that and most bodybuilders did in the 70-80ies.
DO your posing and u will find new poses all the time that fit your body! Pretty funny!
bingo.. most people now have no clue how to pose, pro bodybuilders included. a national competitor asked me to watch him pose two weeks out from the Canadians, my first comment was 'you gotta hold your gut in!' he said,' don't worry, i'll hold it in on stage when I need to'. well, his gut was hanging out on stage too. if it's hard two weeks out in the gym, it's ten times as hard on stage.
I saw guys with huge lats I was competing against, and afterwards the pics show my lat spread is way better. they have more actual muscle, but on stage I look like I have more muscle. that is all attributed to knowing how to pose.
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bingo.. most people now have no clue how to pose, pro bodybuilders included. a national competitor asked me to watch him pose two weeks out from the Canadians, my first comment was 'you gotta hold your gut in!' he said,' don't worry, i'll hold it in on stage when I need to'. well, his gut was hanging out on stage too. if it's hard two weeks out in the gym, it's ten times as hard on stage.
I saw guys with huge lats I was competing against, and afterwards the pics show my lat spread is way better. they have more actual muscle, but on stage I look like I have more muscle. that is all attributed to knowing how to pose.
I guess I always understood that part without also considering the value of flexing on muscular development, shape and vascularity (queue whitewidow challenging everyone to a forearm vein contest)
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bingo.. most people now have no clue how to pose, pro bodybuilders included. a national competitor asked me to watch him pose two weeks out from the Canadians, my first comment was 'you gotta hold your gut in!' he said,' don't worry, i'll hold it in on stage when I need to'. well, his gut was hanging out on stage too. if it's hard two weeks out in the gym, it's ten times as hard on stage.
You cannot teach posing, never ever saw a bb learn how to pose. The way you hit your poses is "set" very early on in your "bb career". Said it many times before, no one agrees :D
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I don`t know about growth...possibly,but I think it may help definition and definitely muscle control.
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You cannot teach posing, never ever saw a bb learn how to pose. The way you hit your poses is "set" very early on in your "bb career". Said it many times before, no one agrees :D
it becomes autonomic. it can change, but it's as difficult as any subconscious behavior it takes a ton of work.
I had guys who did the 'boxers double bi'. that's the best way I can describe it. shoulders high, elbows low, destroying taper and peaks. after weeks of work, had them doing it perfect, elbows high, shoulders low, lats wide. but the second they get on stage they revert to the old 'wrong' form.
when I was 15 my dad took pics of me doing all the Arnold poses. when the film came back a month later (older guys - remember that? younger guys - seriously, that's how pictures worked!!!), the poses were horribly wrong, angles off, twisting wrong. so I spent the next 2 mths tweaking the poses and getting them right.
bad habits are much harder to break than they are to prevent. ( believe me, I've developed a few in the last ten years).
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You cannot teach posing, never ever saw a bb learn how to pose. The way you hit your poses is "set" very early on in your "bb career". Said it many times before, no one agrees :D
You can tweak a little, but your pretty much set due to your body type/ how your brain works
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I taught lots of people how to pose......they were not Ed Corney once they learned,but they were pathetic and laughable at first.
It`s all about hand and foot placement and smooth transitions.
Like hazbin said,in a large class if you make the callouts it`s a fucking brutal workout in itself.
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I don`t know about growth...possibly,but I think it may help definition and definitely muscle control.
Which makes them look bigger. .. my first attempts at a lat spread were funnier than an avesher circuit training video.
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Which makes them look bigger. .. my first attempts at a lat spread were funnier than an avesher circuit training video.
I will scan some pics from my teens, doing the poses wrong, and then a couple months later doing them better.
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I will scan some pics from my teens, doing the poses wrong, and then a couple months later doing them better.
Cool. Thank you.
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I will scan some pics from my teens, doing the poses wrong, and then a couple months later doing them better.
Much fapping will ensue. No homo.
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I taught lots of people how to pose......they were not Ed Corney once they learned,but they were pathetic and laughable at first.
It`s all about hand and foot placement and smooth transitions.
Like hazbin said,in a large class if you make the callouts it`s a fucking brutal workout in itself.
I have taught many people to pose. I make them better for sure. THe ones that pose ok I make good. The ones who started posing like shit I make them Fair
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You know there must be something to this, as Rich F***ing Piana likes to f***ing kill it too, motherf***ers! (He's just f***ing keeping it f***ing real, you understand?) :D
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Being able to pose and find the right posture for optimal illusion is like 90% more imporant than the acual musclemass! Frank Zane knew that and most bodybuilders did in the 70-80ies.
DO your posing and u will find new poses all the time that fit your body! Pretty funny!
Posing is more important, 90% more important, than having actual muscle? Really?
You can be the best poser in the world but if you have no muscle you will just look silly. If you have enough muscle mass you can still win shows without being a masterful poser.
You have to have something to pose -- to pose.
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posing is hard. Much harder than it looks. I was exhausted after just trying to take pics of myself doing some basic shots. Could even feel it the next day. Posing is squeezing the muscle hard and of course that is a training of sorts. Hard to do without a mirror also. Gotta respect those guys who can pull it off and make tensing every muscle in your body look easy.
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Posing is more important, 90% more important, than having actual muscle? Really?
You can be the best poser in the world but if you have no muscle you will just look silly. If you have enough muscle mass you can still win shows without being a masterful poser.
You have to have something to pose -- to pose.
i'm not sure he is right on his percentages, but mohammed makkawy for example was called the magician because he could hide his weak points and make everything appear larger. he was 160ish and beat 230lbrs.
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posing is hard. Much harder than it looks. I was exhausted after just trying to take pics of myself doing some basic shots. Could even feel it the next day. Posing is squeezing the muscle hard and of course that is a training of sorts. Hard to do without a mirror also. Gotta respect those guys who can pull it off and make tensing every muscle in your body look easy.
it was also the whole basis of Charles Atlas' program of dynamic tension.
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it was also the whole basis of Charles Atlas' program of dynamic tension.
One word...Isometrics...
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One word...Isometrics...
and when bob hoffman got all his weightlifters on steroids in (year left out to stop another getbig war) he proclaimed that they were all gaining 150 lbs. on their lift in 6 months due to isometrics.
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and when bob hoffman got all his weightlifters on steroids in (year left out to stop another getbig war) he proclaimed that they were all gaining 150 lbs. on their lift in 6 months due to isometrics.
Which is ridiculous of course...but I can't help but believe that there is a small kernel to isometrics...Women sense that the fastest way to get me sexually is to ask to see my muscles...and they feel them with their fingers and palms...And I have to admit that I like to look at them myself...
I have the feeling, and I have no way of proving it, but I think that practicing posing has given me an extra inch.
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bingo.. most people now have no clue how to pose, pro bodybuilders included. a national competitor asked me to watch him pose two weeks out from the Canadians, my first comment was 'you gotta hold your gut in!' he said,' don't worry, i'll hold it in on stage when I need to'. well, his gut was hanging out on stage too. if it's hard two weeks out in the gym, it's ten times as hard on stage.
I saw guys with huge lats I was competing against, and afterwards the pics show my lat spread is way better. they have more actual muscle, but on stage I look like I have more muscle. that is all attributed to knowing how to pose.
If u know how to pose 16" arms on a 6"2 guy can look pretty good to! Its all about angels twisting turning levels one inch up one inch down etc etc...posing is an art itself! Very uderrated/estimated. Love watching Bob Paris Lee Labrada Francis Benfatto, those guys have been practice posing for houers and houers...